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Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7)

CHAPTER III
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59)-- Che se non fusser le gran parti in quella, Dominerebbe il mondo Italia bella.
If we examine the constitution of these tyrannies, we find abundant proofs of their despotic nature.

The succession from father to son was always uncertain.

Legitimacy of birth was hardly respected.

The last La Scalas were bastards.

The house of Aragon in Naples descended from a bastard.


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